• Warner Inks Deal to Bring Green Day, Madonna, U2 Back to YouTube

    Label also in talks to join Vevo, the ‘Hulu for Music’ initiative.

  • YouTube In Talks to Stream Movie Rentals

    Web giant has had early conversations with Lionsgate, Sony, Warner Bros.

  • Stranger in a Strange Google Land

    About 650,000 people have watched me interview athletes on YouTube since Aug. 9. Is that a high number of people? A low number of people? No idea.   The interviews are produced by BermanBraun which has a deal with Google who, unbeknownst to me, bought YouTube. There were lots of preliminary meetings and conference calls…

  • Iger to Moderate HRTS’ Digital Event

    Event represents organization’s push into digital space.

  • Hollywood Looking for Online Marketing Magic

    YouTube cozied up to latest “Harry Potter” for interactive campaign.

    Hollywood Looking for Online Marketing Magic
  • Video of Iranian Election Protest – YouTube Leads the Movement

    Thousands of people make their voice heard during a Sunday demonstration in Tehran.

  • Not Everyone Lives in a TiVo/YouTube World

    D-day — June 12, 2009. Last Friday was the day when the remainder of the nation’s 1,700 analog television stations shut down in the long-promised changeover to digital broadcasting.   Cable and satellite viewers — or those whose TV has a digital tuner — were still able to watch “American Idol,” “CSI” and “Heroes,” unaware…

  • A Strategy Expert on the Future of Newspapers

    “I doubt that bloggers will satisfy the demand for objective reporting.”

  • Extra! 5 Ways to Save Newspapers!

    From paywalls to incentives for writers, there’s still some hope left.

    Extra! 5 Ways to Save Newspapers!
  • Now That Jay Leno’s Headed to Primetime, Some Advice For NBC

    And so it’s ended. Last Friday, Jay Leno made his last joke, welcomed his successor and signed off from latenight television. And so it begins. Come September, Leno hosts the first broadcast network primetime show in recent memory to air every weeknight at 10 — “stripped” scheduling in TV-speak. NBC’s hinted about what the show…

  • Video: Mike Wesch Talks to Hollywood About YouTube

    Cultural anthropologist addressed a packed room at the home of Peter Guber for a special Wrap event on Thursday night.

  • YouTube Is Changing the Way We See Each Other — and Ourselves

    Watching online videos is not as isolating as you think; in fact, it’s enabling a whole new way of becoming connected.

  • Is There Life Left in AOL?

    It’s lost traffic, buzz and soon even Time Warner, but don’t count the internet “dinosaur” out yet.

    Is There Life Left in AOL?
  • YouTube + Film Studios = Disaster Movie

    It must be ironic, rather than conspiratorial, that just as a Stockholm court jails two individuals responsible for the Pirate Bay and SAG reaches a tentative and contentious deal that YouTube has successfully seduced some big content providers. Obviously Google is not desperate for cash, but it certainly is desperate do something with YouTube, a…

  • YouTube, Uni Music Partner for Hulu-Type Music-Video Channel

    Brokered by U2’s Bono, the plan is to aggregate enough top-level content to attract advertising and sponsorship